bigjohn

I've got the MIJ '65 reissue (bound, no blocks) in this colour scheme. Tis a lovely, lovely beast. Looks nice with blocks too. I look at Jazzes without matching headstocks and they look a bit unfinished to me now

A cheaper and easier way - though not quite as robust, would be to take out the screws, put wood glue on them and screw them back in. The screw holes are far tougher - and there's no real mod.

The trick to playing after /during a few beers is to rehearse after / during a few beers. Anything that revolves around a dexterous / repeated action is the same. I am BY FAR a better pool player when quite p!ssed. I've won a couple of a tournaments whilst happily drinking my way through 8 pints or so. I'm can be quite crap when sober - I never play the game that way.

I'd always thought that people complained that the hammerite one was a bit noisy. Though I've never used one so I'm not one of them. I've got blackface model and it's slightly less quiet (not noisy at all) than the SVT-IIP I a/b'd it with, but that was pretty much silent. Though I'd imagine this would vary by each unit as well as (and if at all) by model.

I don't really understand why gear needs to be justified. Play whatever gear gets your goat, that's what I say. Sounds like you should sell the Ric.

[quote name='Dave Vader' post='1237023' date='May 19 2011, 03:58 PM']That's cos the electrics are completely different from the MIAs. As are the woods etc. contrary to popular myth, mex bodies tend to be made of at least 4 bits, and of cheaper wood. Whether this matter to you or not is entirely subjective. You cannot set up an MIM and then call it an MIA with a different sticker made a few miles away. Because it is an entirely different beastie, £500 different? That's for you to decide...[/quote] Apart from the MIMs that are made using US electrics (I've got one and have owned another) and the MIAs that are made from the same bodies, necks and hardware as these MIMs - such as the original Highway Ones. I really can't see how they're different apart from being assembled a few miles apart. All of the MIM woods are machined and the hardware is made in the US even if they're not the same as the parts that go into US Standards. Not sure if they use cheaper alder for the MIMs, but I'd imagine you're right about the cuts. It's a bit of a minefield that one!

flatter the better for me.

Hello from a Crosbyite exiled in Nottingham!

[quote name='KevB' post='1157936' date='Mar 11 2011, 01:21 PM']Only just spotted this thread. I'd been planning to come down to the gig at The Greyhound in Beeston anyway, the involvement of a fellow BC'er is a bonus, will try to say hello John.[/quote] Please do! Should be a good laff if nothing else. Certainly our biggest date so far. Onwards and upwards!

I bought my first two after trying them in the shop. The first was crap and the 2nd was defective. I was too inexperienced to know. I got used to the 2nd and still have it. Though it's been "fixed", I played it for years with a huge bow in the neck that it acquired through water damage at the shop I bought it from. So trying before you buy doesn't mean anything really.

B50 Rocketbass (1x12) They don't make em no more Luckily I have one

Rich is made of great stuff.